Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho could learn a thing or two from Neil Warnock

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Jose Mourinho needs to take a leaf from the book of... Neil Warnock .

The man affectionately dubbed Colin by his players you can work out the anagram with the rest of the letters in his name always had a player or two who he took with him to every club.

A player who would gauge the mood of the dressing room and report back to him at the times when the temperature was rising.

A player, who not only kept his manager abreast of the feelings in the camp, but a plater who would have the respect of the rest of the boys as well.

Someone who could tell them: Look, dont worry that he has just dug you out, thats his way of keeping you on your toes and, trust me, hes doing it for your benefit and the benefit of the group.

Mourinho needs a player in his squad that can report back to him about dressing room morale

Neil told me this in a conversation once, he explained those benefits, and you could understand why it did work for him.

More to the point, it would work for Mourinho at Manchester United , too, if he had a Clint Hill, Paddy Kenny or Sean Derry of his own.

Some of you might think Zlatan Ibrahimovic was brought to Old Trafford to do just that. Well, that and score a few goals.

The pair have never made any secret of their admiration for each other from the time they spent together at Inter Milan and Ibrahimovic is always going to praise his gaffers virtues.

Mourinho and Zlatan have a good relationship

But while he might help out from time to time, ultimately Zlatan will always be about Zlatan and a manager needs someone who is all about the bigger picture.

So, when Mourinho has let rip and he has done a couple of times in the past few weeks, first with Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard, then Luke Shaw there hasnt seemed to be anyone putting an arm round those he has targeted.

Or reporting back to the manager and telling him to rein it in if it hasnt gone down well with the players.

You need lieutenants in the dressing room and one or two people on your backroom staff who will allow you to get a good cop, bad cop thing going.

Luke Shaw came in for criticism for his performance against Watford

A John Robertson type he was so good at that for Martin ONeill.

If Mourinho is going to go on and beat the likes of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp these hungrier, younger managers then he needs to address that and start boxing a little bit clever.

He needs to stop making it look like, Its all about me, Im the boss, Im the Special One, because that style is dying a little bit.

Mourinho"s style is dying a bit

Or, at least, it appears to be showing a few cracks.

Because when he starts to curl his lip and you can see it in his eyes when they start to go as well he begins to look aggressive and that is never a good sign.

It started to happen at Chelsea fairly early on and, ultimately, that could be a worry at United.

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